Prehistoric Peeps

[writer unknown], directed by Lewin Fitzhamon

Release: August 1905
Format: Short Film
Genre: Comedy
Audience: Adults
Content: Debatable Time Travel
Original Language: English

After falling asleep, Professor Chump finds himself being chased by dinosaurs and curvaceous cavewomen. Intended as a dream, I suppose. In any case, this is one of a series of live-action films based on E. T. Reed’s cartoons from Punch. I ran into several websites, including Palaeontology Online, that blamed this one movie for cementing the juxtaposition of dinosaurs and men in the cinema forevermore. According to IMDb trivia, the dinosaur special effects were accomplished with simple costumes.

— Michael Main

DEBUT

Prehistoric Peeps (at movie theaters, UK, August 1905).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

PRIOR WORKS: based on E. T. Reed’s cartoons from Punch

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Themes

Anachronistic Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures: Concurrent dinosaurs and cavewomen
Just a Dream, Hallucination, et al.: Professor Chump fell asleep, but we have no way of knowing whether the whole thing was just a dream.

Real-World Tags

Dinosaurs

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From Professor Chump’s lab, circa 1905 ⋙ to a time with dinosaurs and cavewomen. Round trip. Note: We presume this was a round trip, but we’ll never know for sure, seeing as how the original footage is lost.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Classification—a short film, about four minutes according to the <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0278641%2F'>IMDb</a>, but five minutes elsewhere.